From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:39:31 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC] Extract kmalloc.h and slob.h from slab.h In-Reply-To: <456E4A53.2030000@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20061129082650.GB12734@infradead.org> <456D4722.2010202@yahoo.com.au> <456E3ACE.4040804@yahoo.com.au> <456E4A53.2030000@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Christoph Hellwig , akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg , mpm@selenic.com, Manfred Spraul List-ID: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > I don't see the problem with slab/slob. It is not the nicest code, but it > isn't unreadable. We do something very similar with nommu, for (perhaps > not the best!) example. I need some order in there to add another type of slab allocator without getting into an umaintainable mess. > But kmalloc seems like one thing that could be split nicely. It would > allow you to get rid of asm/page.h and asm/cache.h from slab.h > (converting callers would be a bigger job). What callers would need to be converted? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org